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Articles with keyword "children"

Orphan train

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Lost Children: Riders on the Orphan Train

By Dan Scheuerman

In the 1850's, the Children's Aid Society began sending thousands of orphans by train to Western towns for adoption.

Tobacco wagon

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Excerpts from the Writings of Wendell Berry

On work and the work of local culture

book cover

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Girl Guides

By Steve Moyer

When the reading of "bad books" was a novel experience

child in theater

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Deaf Meets Wonderstruck

By Katherine Eastland

An NEH-funded documentary inspires a cinematic novel, one to be seen as well as read.

John Wanamaker Monorail

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John Wanamaker Monorail

By Steve Moyer

Shouldn’t these tiny travelers be beaming?